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Japanese/American
(1878–1947)
Glacier Inferno
1931
Bromide print
16 x 19 x 1 in.
Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
2010.34
Much of the work of Dr. Kyo Koike reflects his love and reverence for Mount Rainier, in his adopted home of Washington State. Koike, an avid mountain climber, saw the mountain as the spiritual counterpart to his beloved Mount Fuji, in his native Japan. The contradictory title of this photograph refers to the massive glacier on the mountain, which in reality is a large, active volcano. The ice formation suggests lava owing down the sides, creating a web of abstract patterning that acts as a foil for the silhouetted figure in the foreground. In many of his landscapes Koike included human figures, usually his photographer friends, to illustrate the scale of his majestic subjects and convey the insignificance of humans in relation to these formidable manifestations of nature.
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